Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Brookline - In its
seventh year of presenting local and touring old-time, traditional and revival
folk, Celtic, bluegrass and country blues artists to audiences at the unique
venues, volunteer-run and not-for-profit notloB Parlour Concerts - https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/
- will be coming to Brookline’s
Washington Square in September for a season of at least three string-based
concerts. The venue is the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, 1581 Beacon St. Couch not included.

Blue Hat, Yeah!

Saturday, September 6, 8pm

Blue
Hat, Yeah! is a new band on the forefront of the New England bluegrass and
progressive acoustic music scene. Their blend of traditional bluegrass and
original instrumentals influenced by jazz, bluegrass and old time music makes
them a new voice in the bluegrass world. The band's members have attended
Berklee College of Music, The New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music and
The New Zealand School of Music and each bring a diverse background of
traditional music to the group.

"Blue Hat, Yeah! is the name of this
ambitious group of fine, young musicians whom are working hard at creating
their own brand of Acoustic/Bluegrass music. Hailing from the Boston area and
having studied our genre, they are constantly working, honing, and raring to
go; showcasing to the world what they have to offer. This is a refreshing,
young band with tasteful material, smiles, and a hunger for people to hear and
enjoy what they have to offer. Keep your eyes and ears on this aspiring band in
the future."Jesse Brock Mandolin/vocals The Gibson Brothers

Bronwyn
Keith-Hynes, FiddleBronwyn Keith‐Hynes is a Boston-based musician originally
from Charlottesville, Virginia. Accepted on a scholarship to Berklee College of
Music at age 16, she graduated in 2013 with a diploma in Violin Performance.
Bronwyn is fast gaining recognition for her fiddling in both Irish and
Bluegrass circles. Her playing, improvising, and writing is informed by her
past five years of intense immersion in the Boston acoustic music scene and
time spent studying traditional Irish and Cape Breton music before moving to
Boston. Bronwyn performed with Peter Rowan at the 2013 IBMA and has also
performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts; The Inter‐Celtic Festival in Lorient, France and Grey Fox
Bluegrass Festival. This year she was selected to attend the 2014
Savannah Acoustic Music Seminar, held in April, where she will study with
artists such as Julian Lage, Bela Fleck and Mike Marshall. As well as
performing with Blue Hat, Yeah! Bronwyn also performs with the Wes
Corbett Trio and The Moonlight Ramblers.

Catherine
Bowness, BanjoSince picking up the banjo at age 12, Catherine
(BB) Bowness has travelled throughout New Zealand, Australia and the United
States playing and teaching bluegrass music. At age 15, she received the Frank
Winter memorial award at the Auckland Folk Festival allowing her to travel to
the USA, where she won the Uncle Dave Macon banjo contest in Murfreesboro, TN.
She was the first banjo player accepted to the New Zealand School of Music,
receiving a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance. In 2013, BB was one of just
sixteen young musicians selected to attend the Savannah Acoustic Music Seminar,
studying with world-class artists such as Julian Lage, Mike Marshall and Darol
Anger. Since re-locating to Boston last year she has kept busy recording,
performing and teaching in and around Massachusetts.

Nathanial
Sabat, BassA graduate of the voice program at New York
City’s renowned LaGuardia High School, Nate Sabat’s musical roots are in choral
singing. However, he started playing bass just before he began at LaGuardia,
and, years later, was accepted to the Berklee College of Music as an upright
bass principal. There, he has made it a goal to delve into the thriving Boston
acoustic music scene, inside and outside of Berklee. To date, he has performed,
worked and studied with artists such as Kronos Quartet, The New York Pops,
Eugene Friesen and Bruce Molsky. This winter, he was chosen to be one of
sixteen young acoustic musicians to attend the Savannah Acoustic Music Seminar
in April, and will work with artists such as Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall, and
Chris Eldridge. After graduating Berklee, he plans to stay in Boston for a few
years to continue to play, record, and compose.

Mike
Robinson, GuitarFrom the age of six, Mike Robinson has had a
guitar in his hands. He was raised in a musical family on a thirty-five foot
sailboat that traveled the Caribbean. When he was twelve, Mike and his family
moved to Boulder Colorado where he joined his middle school jazz band and began
attending bluegrass festivals. At age sixteen he premiered a composition on the
first ever CCJA record, "Fourteen Channels" on Tapestry Records. By
the time Mike moved to New York City to study at The New School For Jazz and
Contemporary Music, he had developed a style of playing and writing that mixed
his love of both jazz and bluegrass music. This winter he was accepted to
attend the Savannah Music Festival Acoustic Music Seminar, which will be held
in April 2014 and where he will be studying with some of the top acoustic
musicians in the world. Mike currently lives in New York and is in his third
year as a student at the New School. Mike is in high demand as a guitarist and
singer in both the jazz and bluegrass music worlds.

Matt
Witler, MandolinMatt Witler is a Boston based mandolin player.
Starting on the fiddle at the age of nine, Matt fell in love with old time and
bluegrass music. At the age of 14 he picked up the mandolin and began to study
music in earnest. Matt is now in his final semester at the Berklee College of
Music. While Matt is rooted in the bluegrass tradition, he has explored and
been influenced by Jazz, classical, and pop music. In 2012 Matt won first place
in both the mandolin, and flatpick guitar contests at Rockygrass bluegrass
festival. Matt is a founding member of the Lonely Heartstring Band, a
progressive acoustic band that is quickly gaining acclaim in the bluegrass
community.

The TannahillWeavers are one of Scotland’s premier traditional bands.
Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven
instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads and lullabies. Their
music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich and varied musical heritage
of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received worldwide
accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances and
outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better...yet continue to
do just that.

The Tannahills have turned their acoustic
excitement loose on audiences with an electrifying effect. They have that
unique combination of traditional melodies, driving rhythmic accompaniment, and
rich vocals that make their performances unforgettable. As the Winnipeg
Free Press noted, "The Tannahill Weavers - properly harnessed - could
probably power and entire city for a year on the strength of last night's
concert alone. The music may be old-time Celtic, but the drive and enthusiasm
are akin to straight ahead rock and roll."

Born of a session in Paisley, Scotland, and
named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert
Tannahill, the group has made an international name for its special brand of
Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of
modern rhythms. Over the years the Tannies have been trailblazers for
Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements
have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes. They are
firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage.
From reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and
range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and
lively Celtic spirits.

"An especially eloquent mixture of the old
and the new." New York Times

"Scotland's Tannahill Weavers play acoustic
instruments, but the atmosphere at their shows is electric. The quintet
is as tight and as versatile as any band in the Celtic music revival.
They can summon rock 'n' roll intensity or haunting introspection."
The Boston Globe

"...as close to perfect as it gets in an
imperfect world." Sing Out!

Fresh
Haggis is a dynamic new band
formed of some of the finest young up-and-coming musicians on the Boston
Celtic-music scene. Composed of border piper/singer Elias Alexander,
guitarist/singer Eamon Sefton, and fiddler/singer Kathleen Parks, the group
celebrates the continued vibrancy of the Irish and Scottish musical traditions
through youthful, passionate arrangements of songs and tunes, including some
original compositions within the style. Traditional music at the peak of
exuberance!

Mr. Sun
is the name of a new musical project: Darol Anger, Joe Walsh on mandolin (Gibson
Brothers, himself), Grant Gordy on guitar (David Grisman, Jake Schepps) and
Ethan Jodziewicz on acoustic bass.

This
will be an intimate show with Acoustic Music’s finest stars of any
generation... Four generations of the most creative minds in American String
Band Music... Including an original co-founder of the DGQ. This is an
opportunity to hear these instruments in the setting they were designed for,
interpreting music from the entire swath of America’s Songbook at the highest
level...

Legendary fiddler Darol Anger, youthful guitar
whiz Grant Gordy, and the redoubtable mandolinist Joe Walsh have all spent
their lives moving from place to place, adopting a town and moving on, toward
an magisterial knowledge of the physical and psychic terrains that make up the
Americas. Though each is of a different generation, they've walked
similar musical paths, exploring the worlds of bluegrass, blues, jazz, and
old-time, on their way to mastery of their chosen instruments. Day by day, they
deepen their fluency in the vast swath of dialects that comprise American roots
music.

DAROL ANGERFiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol
Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to
invent. Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Anger
has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his
involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of
Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, Montreux,
his Duo with Mike Marshall, and others. He has performed and taught all over
the world with musicians such as Dr. Billy Taylor, Bela Fleck, Bill Evans,
Edgar Meyer, Bill Frisell, Tony Rice, Tim O’Brien, Anonymous 4, Marin Alsop and
the Cabrillo Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, Mark O’Connor, and Stephane
Grappelli. Today Darol can be heard on NPR's "Car Talk" theme every
week, along with Earl Scruggs, David Grisman and Tony Rice. He was also the
violinist on the phenomenally popular Sim City computer games. In addition to
performing all over the world, he has recorded and produced scores of important
recordings since 1977, is a MacDowell and UCross Fellow, and has received
numerous composers’ residencies and grants. He has been a featured soloist on
dozens of recordings and motion picture soundtracks. He is an Associate
Professor at the prestigious Berklee School of music. He recently began an
ambitious online Fiddle School at ArtistWorks.com. His website is
www.darolanger.com

GRANT
GORDYAssuming the guitarist role in the fabled David
Grisman Quintet, a spot previously held by such notables as Tony Rice, Mark
O’Connor, Frank Vignola and Mike Marshall, has confirmed Grant Gordy as a
pre-eminent young voice on acoustic guitar. David Grisman says Gordy “belongs to
the new elite of American acoustic practitioners who are pushing the
ever-expanding envelope of a musical frontier.”

His work has been widely recognized for its
consistent excellence and diversity. He was featured on the covers of
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and Japan’s premier bluegrass magazine, Moonshiner.
He was recently written up in Just Jazz Guitar and in 2010, Acoustic Guitar
Magazine celebrated his debut CD in its Top Ten Acoustic Albums of the Year.Gordy’s music has been heard on National Public Radio’s
Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the prestigious Tiny Desk Concerts.
Gordy was selected in 2006 to be one of 15 participants in Carnegie Hall’s
“Porous Borders of Music” workshop, led by acoustic music legends Edgar Meyer
and Mike Marshall. He’s played at Bonnaroo Music Festival, the Montréal Jazz
Festival, Carnegie Hall, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco
and in the UK and Russia.

Gordy was drawn to the guitar early on as a
means of expression and intellectual curiosity. Moving to Colorado from Oregon
in his 20s opened his horizons as he began playing in a wide range of different
styles.

Now based in New York, Gordy’s diverse musical
gifts make him the ideal all-around guitarist for one of the world’s most
varied musical cities. He’s currently focused on writing new original material,
delving headlong into the Big Apple’s extraordinary jazz scene, continuing to
tour with Grisman and other collaborators, teaching, and as always, staying
open to new musical experiences.

"The young bluegrass/jazz virtuoso’s
recording debut is an inspired, ambitious, coherent collection of original
compositions for string jazz quartet (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass) that
ranks with the best of his employer, David Grisman.” --Acoustic Guitar Magazine

JOE WALSHRecognized as one of the foremost contemporary
mandolinists, Joe has also won acclaim and affection for his vocals and his
talents on a number of other instruments, including guitar and octave mandolin.
Legendary fiddler Darol Anger called “one of my favorite musicians on earth.”
With two solo albums to his credit, he toured internationally with the
award-winning bluegrass supergroup The Gibson Brothers.In the spring of 2011 Joe released his second
solo record, “Sweet Loam,” which features several of his recent compositions
and new arrangements of some more familiar songs. An exceptional cast of
musicians joins him, including Mike Block, Scott Law, Karl Doty, Lauren Rioux,
and Darol Anger, who also co-produced the record with Joe. In the Fall of
2011 Joe returned to Berklee as both a mandolin instructor and as Managing
Director of the American Roots Music Program.

ETHAN JODZIEWICZ
Ethan Jodziewicz currently studies at Curtis Institute with Edgar Meyer. Making
a musical home for Mr Sun in the space around and between the great American
roots styles, this quartet draws from all of their varied backgrounds
(Grammy-nominated fiddle music and jazz, award-winning bluegrass, indie/pop
grass, new acoustic string bands, and classical music) in crafting a sound all
their own, and is drawing all the right kind of attention for their new musical
work.

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notloB
Folk Concerts has produced not-for-profit concerts in the greater Boston area
since 2007. The series is volunteer-run; 100% of the donations go to the
musicians and production expenses. No still, video or sound recording is
permitted without permission of the artist and the house.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Sign-up for the FreshGrass Award closes today, Tuesday,August 5, at midnightbefore this year's FreshGrass festival on September 19-21. Prizes total $15,000, as this year's contest expands to three categories — Best Band, Best Duo, and Best Banjo — judged by an all-star cast of bluegrass artists, Alison Brown, Chris Pandoli, and The Gibson Brothers

via Fresh Grass newsletter.

We believe they mean Chris Pandolfi.

Marketeers really should have their newsletters proofread by someone familiar with the artists prior to sending.

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